It is strange, ' Proust wrote in 1909, 'that, in the most widely different departments . . . there should be no other literature which exercises over me so powerful an influence as English and American.' In the spirit of ProustOCOs admission, this engaging and critical volume offers the first comparative reading of the French novelist in the context of American art, literature, and culture. In addition to examining ProustOCOs key American influences OCo Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and James McNeill Whistler OCo ...
Read More
It is strange, ' Proust wrote in 1909, 'that, in the most widely different departments . . . there should be no other literature which exercises over me so powerful an influence as English and American.' In the spirit of ProustOCOs admission, this engaging and critical volume offers the first comparative reading of the French novelist in the context of American art, literature, and culture. In addition to examining ProustOCOs key American influences OCo Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and James McNeill Whistler OCo Proust and America investigates the previously overlooked influence of the American neurologist George Beard, whose writings on neurasthenia and 'American nervousness' contributed to the essential modernity of ProustOCOs work."
Read Less
